Well Diablo 3 Season 17 just ended and I wanted to write a review of what I accomplished. I had a real good season and did very well with my Witch Doctor. This season was the Season of Nightmares and I ended up playing with a Legacy of Nightmare Dagger of Darts setup. This setup does a ton of damage and is fairly tanky as well, which is nice for Hardcore players. I managed to do a greater rift 113, which put me at rank 57 for the Hardcore Witch Doctors. The greater rift 113 is my highest greater rift that I have been able to do so far. My seasonal paragon hit 1145, which is also my highest ever for a single season. I managed to do this while only playing 132 hours for the season. My overall paragon level sits at 1980. In addition, I managed to reach the Guardian level on the seasonal journey and I was able to get the new Galactic Wings for the seasonal accomplishment.
The Legacy of Nightmare Dagger of Darts is pretty easy to build. Other than getting every piece of gear at an ancient level, the build is straight forward. I think one of the earlier piece of gear that I managed to get was an ancient Tasker and Theo gloves. This was pretty useful early on because it can be both used in the LoN build plus with the Helltooth set. I didn't get any primal legendaries for my build but I don't think it matter that much. I had an unfortunate death early on with a weird disconnect error but I was using my Jade set at the time and I didn't lose that much progress. I didn't think I could reach as high a greater rift but somehow I managed to do it. This LoN build has very simple play style which is to just spam your primary fire, which is the Poison Dart. I have been using a more unconventional style which uses the Hex skill. I really like Hex a lot because not only you do more damage to the monsters you are killing but it also transforms the monsters into pigs which are not able to hit you back. Hex is really useful for killing elites but unfortunately it doesn't do anything against rift bosses.
Season 18 begins on August 23 and is pretty much going to be the same as season 17. I think I will continue using the Legacy of Nightmare Dagger of Darts build for season 18 with a couple of minor changes. I will probably end up using a mix of Dagger of Darts and Gargantuan, which I was using for the majority of season 17. I don't think this build will do as much damage as the pure LoN Dagger of Darts build but it does come pretty close. I hope everyone had a good season 17 and I look forward to playing season 18 soon. I have more updates coming up about Juno Reactor and the Vancouver Titans so please stay tuned.
